Dutch group combats Wilders’ rhetoric online
Olaf Paulus van Pauwvliet, Liesbeth Jongkind, and Eltine Kampen have spent several evenings debating online with potential Wilders voters (Photo: Peter Teffer) By PETER TEFFER, euobserver.com It was a big shock to Olaf Paulus van Pauwvliet when he found out that two of his friends were planning to vote for the Party for Freedom (PVV), of the anti-Islam and anti-EU politician Geert Wilders. “They live in a nice affluent suburb, and are never bothered by Muslims – if you should be bothered by Muslims in the first place,” said Paulus van Pauwvliet. Their political disagreement led to an “unpleasant” conversation,...
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